Computers, computing technology and electronics in the USSR were backward and did not compete with Western ones

The Soviet Union had a fairly developed branch of computer technology and electronics, which in a number of aspects was not inferior to, and sometimes even ahead of, Western developments.

In the 1950s–1960s, a series of powerful computers were created in the USSR, such as Strelets, Ural, Minsk and Vityaz, which were actively used in science, defense, production management and design. A large radio-electronic industry was formed with well-known enterprises (Svetlana, Quartz, Silicon, etc.) that produced radio tubes, microcircuits and other electronic components. The Elbrus family of supercomputers, in particular Elbrus-2, at one time surpassed many American analogues in performance. In addition, it was in the USSR that the world's first computer, “Setun,” appeared, operating on ternary logic, which became an innovation that was ahead of its time and anticipated some ideas of modern promising architectures, including quantum computing.